Doi Suthep: The Temple on the Mountain

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I'm deleting the text from my old travel blogs here, but leaving the pictures for posterity. Or something.

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Photos

The stairs to the temple
There's no road up to the temple, just a few hundred stairs.

Growl
Some of the dragons that guard the temple.

Temple doorway
The temple is surrounded by huge bells and gongs that you can ring, and the whole thing - each of the buildings, inside and out - is this beautiful and intricate.

face of Buddha
This is one of the Buddha images, outside of the Wat. There's this really big, incredible one inside the temple, but I didn't take a picture. Ashlee already offended the monks by stepping on the threshold - I thought it best to just leave quietly.

View from the Mountain
It wasn't the clearest day, but there was still a pretty cool view of the city. Chiang Mai has a limit on how tall the buildings are allowed to be, in order to preserve the skyline. In the past 10 years, however, a few big chain hotels have shot up into the sky and gotten away with it. But for the most part, the buildings are all quite short.

Me and the view
Me, sweating as I usually am in this country, and the view from the temple.

Jaams
Everyone, meet Jaams. He and Ashlee are my constant companions as of late.